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Acorn Archimedes A310

Acorn · 1987

One of the first ARM machines anybody could buy. The 1987 Archimedes launch put Acorn's own 32-bit processor — designed in-house because nothing on the market was good enough — into a desktop computer running Arthur, later RISC OS. It was faster than anything at the price and had almost no software. The significance is hard to overstate: every ARM core shipped since traces to this design.

As catalogued

Maker
Acorn
CPU
Acorn ARM2-8
Memory
512K, 1MiB, 4MiB
Styles
A305, A310, A410/1, A440
Regions
PAL (UK)
Chassis
two-box desktop
OS
Arthur 1.20 / RISC OS 2

Chips

6
CPU
Acorn ARM2, Acorn ARM3 (upgrade)
Floppy controller
WD1772
OS ROM
Arthur 1.20, RISC OS 2.00, RISC OS 3.10, RISC OS 3.11
MEMC
MEMC1, MEMC1a
VIDC
VIDC1, VIDC1a
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